Bruno Booth, Jam Jam, 2021, with text overlay. Photo: Bo Wong. Courtesy: the artist and Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Yamatji Country/Geraldton.

Body Shots by Bruno Booth is an audio visual installation presented on a custom-built sculptural frame. The screens show candid views of the disabled body – juxtaposed with familiar landscapes and scenes. A foot that looks like no other lies on a bed of green grass, a knobbly, scarred knee rests on a sandy beach gently washed by the tide. These views link across screens, forming unusual, unapologetic bodies that float in space. Each of the videos is nine minutes long, referencing the percentage of artists in Australia who identify as disabled, compared to the 20% of the full Australian population.

This work, originally presented as a discrete exhibition at Goolugatup Heathcote in Melville, is paired for tour with a series of day-glo coloured, tracksuit-wearing sculptural cats commissioned for the Art Gallery of Western Australia’s 2021 survey of Western Australian artistic practice, The View From Here. These bright and irreverent animal ambassadors are placed in unusual and surprising locations
throughout an exhibition space, aiming to gently re-orient the viewer’s physical and psychological relationship to the gallery.

Opening Event: Friday 5 July, 6 – 8pm.

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